Petter Reinholdtsen dixit: >I do not see the advantage of increasing the complexity by making it >easier to change /bin/sh to anything but dash and bash.
First of, this is already possible, so that wouldn't be a change, just keeping currently existing behaviour. Second, Debian policy states that /bin/sh can be any POSIX compatible shell, not just GNU bash and dash. So you'd have to change the policy to forbid people to install mksh, pdksh, AT&T ksh, whatever as /bin/sh. >None of the other shells are commonly used as replacement /bin/sh Not commonly in Debian, but in other operating systems. Actually, Korn shell variants are QUITE common in a lot of places (the BSDs, Interix aka Microsoft SFU/SUA, UWIN, Solaris, just to name a few I know off-hand). This way, portability problems in scripts can be found easier, as can possible bugs (or non-bug issues) in the shells. (The next major version of mksh will not define “stop” as a shell alias any longer if it's called as -sh or */sh to prevent more bugs like #424213 to be filed.) Please consider keeping current policy and implementing the alternatives system like the window manager stuff in the Debconf tutorial. bye, //mirabile PS: I'd appreciate keeping me in Cc: as I'm not subscribed to the list. -- I believe no one can invent an algorithm. One just happens to hit upon it when God enlightens him. Or only God invents algorithms, we merely copy them. If you don't believe in God, just consider God as Nature if you won't deny existence. -- Coywolf Qi Hunt
